Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book Putting A Face on Things, digital original edition written by B. Coleman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial aspect of our cultural shift from analog to digital is the continuum between online and off-, the “x-reality” that crosses between the virtual and the real. Our avatars are not just the animated figures that populate our screens but the gestalt of images, text, and multimedia that make up our online identities. In this BIT, B. Coleman looks at the research history in HCI of putting a face on things, the consequences of virtual embodiment, and our perception of simulation.